Ivy Wellness Center, Santa Cruz
Since 1979, Ivy Wellness Center has offered colon hydrotherapy, naturopathic consultations, diet and lifestyle support, massage, and manual lymph drainage. Clients experience optimum rejuvenation in a soothing and caring environment from gentle, caring, credentialed staff.
http://www.ivywellnesscenter.com/
The Laughing Phoenix
Lisa Benson, Financial Life Counselor http://www.thelaughingphoenix.com/
Mindful Bodywork by the Sea, Aptos
Catherine Eick, CMT, CPT, Certified GYROKINESIS® Trainer; Reiki Master/Teacher
Offering GYROKINESIS® Method Classes – Small Group, Semi-Private and Private in a beautiful ocean-view setting; MicroMovement Bodywork; Reiki Sessions (Hands On or Long Distance) and Reiki Classes. 831.688.4496
Osani Holistic Healthcare
Founders Frank and Sanda Jasper have been in practice together since 1993. They opened Osani Holistic Health Care in January 1995, offering a full line of holistic services and nutritional support.
http://osaniholistichealthcare.com/
Susan Merritt, Private and Group Yoga Instruction
Exceptional yoga instruction for people of all ages and abilities. Susan combines her knowledge of anatomy, alignment and movement with a gift for individualized instruction. She reaches people at their level deftly, gently, and with no judgment. Extra Gentle Yoga Classes – for people with movement challenges; Movement Made Accessible – private sessions for those with a history of stroke, Parkinson’s, head trauma and other movement-limiting conditions.
http://www.susanmerrittyoga.com/
Akilesh Palanisamy, MD, Institute for Health & Healing
Dr. Palanisamy is a board-certified family physician with a longstanding interest in integrative medicine, particularly in ayurveda (traditional Indian medicine), applied kinesiology, and mind-body techniques. Dr. Palanisamy received his BA from Harvard University and his MD from the University of California, San Francisco. He completed the Mind-Body Medicine Training at Georgetown University Medical School and uses a variety of tools to address emotional and spiritual factors impacting health.
http://www.sutterpacific.org/dr-akilesh-palanisamy.html
George Lister, The Northern California Center for the Alexander Technique
The Alexander approach emphasizes freedom to choose beyond conditioning in every action. Clients experience Alexander’s principle of conscious “directing” without “doing” and become aware of unnecessary effort, self-limiting habits and mistaken perceptual assumptions. By interrupting unnecessary habits, clients experience a state of “non-doing” or “allowing”. This in turn results in decreased pain, more freedom of movement, increased performance, and personal transformation.
http://www.alexvoce.com
Helen Elizabeth Hewitt, Wild Horse Medical Qigong
Medical Qigong has been used as a healing practice for over 5,000 years. Medical Qigong exercises and meditations cultivate vital energy, leading to overall improved health and well-being. Wild Horse Medical Qigong offers classes, on-site workshops and individual instruction as well as distance healing treatments that support and enhance traditional Western medical care.
http://www.helenhewittqigong.com/
Lane Arye, Ph.D.
Lane Arye specializes in three areas: body-centered process work, releasing creativity, and process oriented conflict facilitation. All three are connected by a deep trust in the principle that all of life’s experiences, even the most disturbing ones, can lead us in the direction of change, growth, creativity, connection, and wholeness.
http://www.processworklane.com/
Pamela Kramer, Career and Executive Coaching, Organizational Development Consulting
Pam Kramer combines analytical and intuitive approaches to assisting individuals and organizations reach their full potential.
http://pamelakramerconsulting.com
Unfinished Business
Life Planning for older adults who want to accomplish what’s most important during the remainder of their lives. Unfinished Business workshops help instill a sense of urgency by uncovering core values and authentic motivation from within.
http://www.unfinbiz.com
Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives
by Michael Newton, Ph.D.
Newton is a hypnotherapist who has worked with thousands of subjects with the goal of studying life purpose and reincarnation. In this book, he describes 70 case histories of people who were regressed into their lives between lives. Reading this book, I recognized many “places” described by his clients. Some were places I’ve visited when reading departed loved ones for clients; some I remembered from my own between-life flashbacks. The book beautifully describes the process of designing our current life experiences for specific soul lessons.
Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field
by Barbara Brennan, Ph.D.
Physicist, energy healer and teacher Barbara Brennan provides an in-depth study of the human energy field. One of the most valuable aspects of this book and of her subsequent book, Light Emerging (below), is the description on the mechanics of the aura and the relationship between auric structures and their function in the body, mind and emotions.
Hands of Life: Use Your Body’s Own Energy Medicine for Healing, Recovery, and Transformation
by Julie Motz, Ph.D.
One of the first nontraditional healers allowed to work in an operating room, she chronicles her experiences of doing energy healing on patients while Dr. Mehmet Oz, cardiothoracic surgeon, author, and television personality, performed surgery at a California hospital.
Life Colors: What the Colors in your Aura Reveal
by Pam Oslie
While in actuality, the colors and patterns emanating from the aura are much more complex than narrowing your entire aura down to just one color, this interesting typology does have amazing validity for the purpose of predicting one’s life purpose. I suspect that the author is actually referring not to the entire aura, but to what Barbara Brennan calls “The Seat of the Soul” – an area between the 4th and 5th chakras associated with life mission. For a more accurate description of the function and meaning of the aura, I suggest the two books by Barbara Brennan listed here.
Light Emerging: The Journey of Personal Healing
by Barbara Brennan, Ph.D.
Gifted intuitive and teacher Barbara Brennan shows how we can be empowered as both patients and healers to understand and work with our most fundamental healing power: the light that emerges from the very center of our being.
The Open-Focus Brain: Harnessing the Power of Attention to Heal Mind and Body
by Les Fehmi and Jim Robbins
This highly readable and empowering book offers straightforward explanations and simple exercises on how to shift into a more calm, open style of attention that reduces stress, improves health, and enhances performance.
Zen Mind, Beginners Mind
by Shunryu Suzuki; Afterword by David Chadwick
This elegantly simple book is a spiritual classic that resonates with insight and joy throughout.
Elise Wormuth
About Judith page: “Foggy Landscape”
Intuition FAQs page: “Dahlia 1”
Guided Meditations page: “Ocean Seascape”
Readings page: “Water Lily”
Recommendations page: “Ano Nuevo” and “Orchid 13”
Testimonials page: “Iris 6 Textured”, “Water Lily” and “Cloudy Sky 2”
http://flickr.com/people/mythlady
http://ewormuthphotography.com
Elise’s work can also be viewed at Scotts Valley Artisans Gallery, Scotts Valley, CA
http://www.scottsvalleyartisans.com/index.php
Lorcan Keating
About Judith page and Contact page portraits
Appointments and Payments page: “Canada Geese in San Francisco Fog”
http://flickr.com/photos/ciloisin